Art City is a not-for-profit art community centre in Winnipeg's West Broadway area. We provide free of charge high-quality art programming for all ages, five days a week.
Art City brings in local, national and international artists. We pride ourselves in our belief that visual art makes the world a better place.
Our participants are the reason we exist. There is a space for art in every life, and every person deserves the artistic opportunity we offer, in a safe supportive environment. We foster self-expression, self-respect, and pride in one's work.

AYO! (Aboriginal Youth Opportunities) is a youth movement from Winnipeg's North End. We use relationships with organizations, media partners and businesses in order to empower each other. This group is simply young people volunteering and sharing their gifts with others, no paid staff, no building, no board of directors. We listen to the ideas of young people, plan them, and love them until they become reality. We are committed to helping our North End to heal and will work with those who share our vision to provide ABORIGINAL YOUTH with more OPPORTUNITIES! [

The Bike Dump is a community-use bicycle repair shop in Winnipeg that makes cycling and bicycle repair knowledge accessible to everyone. We have tools and space to fix your bike, volunteers to help guide you through repairs and and a stock of recycled bike frames and parts. We offer creative alternatives to auto dependency and its consequences.

Vast stretches of Canada's boreal forest are undisturbed by development, providing refuge on a grand scale for caribou, gray wolves and millions of songbirds that nest in the dense woods. But the wildest stretch of this great forest - its very heart - is under threat from transmission lines, industrial access roads, mining and large-scale logging. In response to these dangers, BioGems Defenders have joined other environmental activists and indigenous communities in an urgent campaign to save the Heart of the Boreal Forest.

The CCPA Manitoba was formed in 1997 to challenge the onslaught of neo-liberal policies in our province. We continue to have an impact on public discourse by offering Manitobans critical policy analysis, solid research and progressive policy alternatives. The Manitoba office has continued to publish regularly on a range of issues, with a particular emphasis on poverty and labour issues.

The Canadian Federation of Students was formed in 1981 to provide students with an effective and united voice, provincially and nationally. At the time, it was recognized that for students to be truly effective in representing their collective interests to the federal and provincial governments, it was vital to unite under one banner. Today, the Federation comprises more than 500,000 students from over 80 university and college students' unions across the country. There are 5 member locals in Manitoba uniting over 42,000 part-time and full-time students.

The Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS Manitoba) has been a champion of wilderness and parks in the province since 1991. CPAWS Manitoba ensures that the voice of conservation is heard on issues affecting our parks and wilderness areas.

In 2006, Manitoba Council on International Cooperation became involved in the efforts of individuals and groups around the province to heighten Manitobans' awareness of fair trade through Fair Trade Manitoba, now a program of MCIC. For Manitobans, purchasing fair trade products provides an opportunity to be active global citizens, where actions here in Manitoba can impact positively on the lives of farmers and artisans in the global South.

"We are entertainers, a rag-tag bunch of scaly-wags, a "Come-Unity" orchestra and a circus-like performance troop, which brings collective JOY to children, adults, seniors, plants and all other species alike! We do this on the street, at parks, at musical festivals across Canada, street festivals in diverse neighbourhoods, community gatherings, parades, political protests, marches, movie shoots, concerts and parties!"

FMM is a registered charity dedicated to healthy, sustainable food for all. We cultivate community food skills, provide public education and build partnerships and networks. We are home to the Manitoba Food Charter.

Green Action Centre is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in Winnipeg and serving Manitoba. We are a registered charity, governed by an elected community board. We promote greener living through environmental education and encourage practical green solutions for homeowners, workplaces, schools and communities.
Our primary areas of work are green commuting, composting and waste, sustainable living and resource conservation. Programs and outreach are supported by donations from individuals, grants from foundations and governments, and sponsorships.

Groundwork for Change was built to provide access to information to help non-Indigenous (settler) peoples grow relationships with Indigenous peoples that are rooted in justice and solidarity. This site is meant to support people who are asking questions and want to learn more in respectful and useful ways. Of course, learning shouldn't only happen through a website, so this site also shares listings of events and initiatives that may help grow new relationships.

Our mission is to develop a learning center that works toward strengthening and building linkages between urban and rural areas, empowering communities while creating strategies and infrastructure to sustain community and environment. Over the past ten years, the HMS has consulted and worked with local residents of Clearwater, Manitoba, to develop an action plan for long-term rural environmental and economic sustainability.

The Human Rights Hub provides a central space to coordinate and promote the events and activities of the many individuals and groups in Winnipeg taking action on human rights issues! The Hub focuses on local activities, but has a global outlook on issues.

At the Heart of Turtle Island the drums beat loudly as we all rise together...Idle No More 2.0
Why:
Our mission statement
We are going to tell the truth. We will tell you the truth about water, earth, and our relationships with each other.
What:
We are going to empower people and groups with a framework that they can add to with their own creativity and human drive.
How:
We will do this under the guidance of The Village We Once Had and the power created in us to reach out to what is good, right, and just.

Make Poverty History Manitoba (MPHM) is a multi-sectoral collaborative coalition representing business, education, student, youth, Aboriginal, newcomer, labour, women's, disability, urban, rural, and northern communities. The coalition's efforts are directed primarily at the provincial level. However, its work contributes toward the achievement of Make Poverty History's national campaign objectives.

Manitoba Eco-Network promotes positive environmental action by connecting people and groups in our communities. We are an umbrella for environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGO's) throughout the province, welcoming individual, ENGO and associate members to our organization. We educate, we facilitate, we celebrate!

We are a coalition of individual Manitobans and community groups committed to defending the lands, air, and waters in Manitoba by working to reclaim and protect our environment and promote social justice in the energy sector. Our groups work independently on many issues, and we come together through this coalition to advance a shared vision and mission related to eliminating fossil fuels, protecting watersheds, and promoting resource equity in Manitoba.
We are committed to working in solidarity with other front line communities directly impacted by fossil fuels.
We are based in Winnipeg, Manitoba/Treaty 1 territory.

Manitoba Wildlands is a non-profit environmental and public research organization. We work with communities, industry sectors, and environmental organizations for the future of Manitoba's lands and waters. We support establishment of protected areas in Manitoba, with a special focus on our boreal forest regions. We provide information about decisions for use of crown (public) lands and water; technical information about lands use decisions. Often this web site provides hard to find government information, or documents that are not posted elsewhere.

Peace Alliance Winnipeg is committed to developing a broad movement for peace in our city. It organizes actions and educational events to promote an understanding of the events which are shaping our world. Through our web site we present news, information and discussion about Canada's role in the world as it relates to issues of war and peace as well as developments that occur in other countries.

Project Peacemakers is a body of people who are working for peace from a faith perspective and we are a local chapter of Project Ploughshares. We believe that peace is more than the absence of war. A peaceful society is one which is just and where all people are free to strive for wholeness. We try to create a peaceful society by motivating and educating ourselves and our community. We believe in a world that can love, learn and liberate. Our faith calls us to action for peace, against violence, against greed (especially in its globalized corporate form). We are in solidarity with all who share this vision.

Right to Housing is a Winnipeg-based coalition of 120 individuals and 33 organizations working together to address the current housing crisis and the chronic need for social housing. We promote and lobby for safe, quality social housing (where rent is geared to income) and housing policy solutions on a local, provincial and national level as part of a comprehensive strategy to eliminate poverty.

Transition Winnipeg (TW) is a community-led initiative to increase our quality of life, make the local economy more resilient and adapt to contemporary challenges -- a changing climate, more expensive oil and fewer non-renewable resources. The transition movement is community-led. Anyone can be involved and everyone is invited, regardless of background, age, or experience.

Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students' Association (UWSA) are pleased to join the Cinema Politica network though the formation of "Cinema Politica at The University of Winnipeg. Our aim is to engage with students and the public in ways that encourage informed citizenry through creative and critical thinking. Through the presentation and discussion of these films, we hope to grow our relationships with students, faculty, and staff on campus, as well as citizens of Winnipeg at large. Let's watch films about issues that matter to us, then talk about and plan actions we can take to make the world a more equitable and sustainable place for everyone.

Winnipeg's first cohesive alternative news media platform. A grassroots initiative owned and operated by people of like mind, involving themselves in the fight for human rights. Covering issues on the local front and beyond, topics ranging from health to civil liberties.
Our goal is to provide a well designed, effective website to serve as a jumping point and meeting place for those of us who are looking to learn more about these issues, join others in fighting them and build our ideas and tools of social change in more concise and concerted efforts. A place to come together, share, learn and give others a chance to do the same.

Winnipeg Copwatch believes that police brutality and misconduct are rights violations that no one should experience or tolerate. Formed in August 2006, Winnipeg Copwatch is an independent collective of volunteers working to end police brutality and misconduct in Winnipeg. We regularly patrol Winnipeg's streets by car, bike, and on foot, observing and videotaping police interactions with the public without interfering with the police. Our goal on patrols is to deter rather than document police violence. Winnipeg Copwatch organizes Know Your Rights workshops to inform people of their rights when interacting with police.

The Winnipeg Labour Council (WLC) is this region's "House of Labour", or central labour body. Just as workers unite in a union to protect their rights, union locals unite in the Labour Council to further their aims and objectives. The WLC promotes the goals of the labour movement in Winnipeg at the municipal level.